Article published in:
Translation and LGBT+/queer activism
Edited by Michela Baldo, Jonathan Evans and Ting Guo
[Translation and Interpreting Studies 16:2] 2021
► pp. 196–218

The body center stage

Chouinard’s Jérôme Bosch: Le Jardin des délices as a queering translation

| University of Lisbon
This article examines Marie Chouinard’s choreography Jérôme Bosch: Le Jardin des délices (2016) as an intermedial translation of Bosch’s homonymous painting. Taking the concepts of distribution of the sensible and esthetic regime developed by Rancière (2004) as groundwork, I consider how dance and translation participate in the political by challenging traditional hierarchal author–translator relationships, by introducing new corporealities and discourses in the realm of the visible and by exploiting the slippage of meaning that can be produced in the reiteration of discourse and citationality that characterize these two disciplines. I conclude by arguing that in engaging with these three lines of thought, Jérôme Bosch: Le Jardin des délices offers a model of translation as an embodied and situated practice that combines the esthetic and the political by bringing a dialogue between equally participating subjects to bear upon a specific context.
Keywords: queering translation, intermedial translation, The Garden of Earthly Delights , Marie Chouinard, contemporary dance
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • Redistributing the sensible on page and stage
  • Beyond fidelity and betrayal: The intervenient translator
  • A queering translation
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 22 December 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/tis.19058.mon
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